{"id":5411,"date":"2006-10-02T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:11:03","slug":"my-dino-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5411","title":{"rendered":"Nick Tosches’ Dino Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m reading Nick Tosches’ Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams<\/a>\"\"<\/i> and eventually I’ll have to post a ton of great quotes from it – I am loving it – but I just had to pull one out that made me laugh out loud. Its a quote from Abby Greshler – agent for Martin and Lewis as they were starting to hit it big (although the management of these two was unbelievably complicated – hard to keep straight – because they were a duo, but they had separate representation, and people were clamoring to get a piece of them at all times). Anyway, Abby Greshler, like many of those hovering around Martin and Lewis at the time, had “underworld” connections. The nightclubs were all mob-owned – yet with elaborate schemes to hide that fact, blah blah. Anyway, there’s a section in the book about Greshler and how he was trying to bat off a lot of these underworld guys – who were trying to force him to book Martin and Lewis in THEIR nightclub as opposed to the OTHER GUY’S nightclub.<\/p>\n

Here’s the excerpt:<\/p>\n

On top of everything, Bill Miller, with the shadow of the Bergen County mob behind him, claimed to hold an unwritten option on future engagements. Greshler began receiving ominous visits and calls. Some of the callers he recognized. The ones he could not identify were even more disquieting.<\/p>\n

“I have no comment on that,” Greshler would say many years later when asked about those visits and calls. “I know every underworld character in the world, but I never had any problems with them. They kidnapped my kid once, but outside of that, it was quiet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uhm … outside of that<\/i>???<\/p>\n

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